{"id":20022,"date":"2025-10-30T19:23:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20022\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T19:23:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T19:23:11","slug":"sixers-exercise-jared-mccains-team-option-for-2026-27-season-nbc10-philadelphia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/20022\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixers exercise Jared McCain\u2019s team option for 2026-27 season \u2013 NBC10 Philadelphia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Sixers on Thursday announced that they\u2019ve exercised Jared McCain\u2019s third-year team option for the 2026-27 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to Spotrac<\/a>, McCain\u2019s third-year option as the 16th overall pick in the 2024 NBA draft is approximately $4.4 million.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The deadline for rookie-scale team option decisions is Friday. There was zero suspense about whether the Sixers would pick up McCain\u2019s option. He showed tons of offensive ability in his rookie season<\/a> and averaged 15.3 points, 2.6 assists and 2.4 rebounds over 23 games.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Duke product hasn\u2019t played since suffering a left knee lateral meniscus tear on Dec. 13 of last year. In late September, he tore the UCL in his right thumb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s all part of the process,\u201d McCain said on Oct. 15.<\/a> \u201cI\u2019ve just got to trust that it happened for a reason.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the Sixers haven\u2019t set a timeline for McCain\u2019s return to play, he\u2019s made recent progress in his rehab. He\u2019s now able to shoot with his right hand again<\/a> and participated in a light, non-contact practice Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Sixers on Thursday announced that they\u2019ve exercised Jared McCain\u2019s third-year team option for the 2026-27 season.\u00a0 According…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20023,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[13927,4794,69,1002,71,70,10793,10794],"class_list":{"0":"post-20022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-jared-mccain","9":"tag-nba","10":"tag-philadelphia","11":"tag-philadelphia-76ers","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-sixers-analysis","15":"tag-sixers-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}